Every year Assumption students like Molly Sweeney '16 travel across the country, and overseas, to lend a helping hand through the College's SEND Service Immersion trips. Last winter Molly traveled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, a region marked by extreme strife and poverty, where she and 11 other students assisted at worksites ranging from a Catholic school to a women's shelter to an after school program run by the Rostro de Cristo foundation. Everywhere they went they made a difference and learned about the importance of faith, service and compassion.

"I thought that I would be going to Ecuador to help change the lives of others, but it was the people of Guayaquil who changed my life and made me appreciate all of my blessings," Molly remembers. She also remembers the simple joy and profound sense of accomplishment she felt serving those in need-and how it has inspired her to keep on helping